Hao Meng asked anxiously when he came out of the room.
"What else can we do? Please surrender after leaving the city."
After Chen Gong finished speaking, he left.
For Chen Gong, leaving the city and asking for surrender is the best way out now.
If you insist on defending the city, you will only be killed or captured in the end. There is a big difference between surrendering after the city is broken and being captured, and taking the initiative to surrender now.
If you leave the city and break out of the siege, you will end up just like defending the city. You will either be killed or captured, and you will not be able to escape at all.
Before Lu Bu died, he asked Gao Shun to surrender. Instead of waiting for him to surrender first, it was better to leave the city in advance to surrender.
Liu Bei has a reputation of benevolence and righteousness, so it is impossible for him to kill himself. Maybe he can still be hired by Liu Bei.
Therefore, Chen Gong wanted to be the first to surrender, instead of following Gao Shun.
"Hey, wait for me."
Hao Meng thought for a moment and felt that the best way to surrender was to follow Chen Gong. He shouted to follow, but Zhang Liao grabbed him.
Chen Gongtou did not look back and left directly.
"Wenyuan, aren't you ready to surrender?"
Hao Meng asked doubtfully after being pulled by Zhang Liao.
Zhang Liao pulled him aside and asked, "How do you think Liu Bei will treat us?"
"Even if he doesn't kill him, do you think he will trust us and reuse us?" Zhang Liao asked seriously.
As a demoted general, it seems impossible to be trusted and reused.
Hao Meng shook his head: "Probably not."
Zhang Liao added: "If we surrender to Liu Bei at this time, it will be after his troops have reached the city and we have no way out. It is the same as surrendering after being captured. But if we surrender to Cao Cao, we are surrendering on our own initiative, not surrendering the general, so we must surrender."
But he can be reused by Cao Cao. Who do you think will be more powerful in the future, Cao Cao or Liu Bei?"
Hao Meng nodded, thinking Zhang Liao was right.
Surrendering Liu Bei was a forced surrender, but surrendering to Cao Cao was a surrender, which has different meanings.
If you have to choose between surrendering to a general and defecting to a general, you must choose to defect.
But who will be more powerful in the future, Cao Cao or Liu Bei, this question stopped Hao Meng.
Because both Cao Cao and Liu Bei defeated Yuan Shu and Lu Bu, he felt that both of them were very strong, and one of them occupied Yanzhou and the other occupied Xuzhou. It was hard to say who would be stronger in the future.
After thinking for a while, Hao Meng finally agreed with Zhang Liao's statement, but he was still worried: "Now that the city is under siege, how can we get out of the city to surrender to Cao Cao?"
"Fight out of the city." Zhang Liao replied.
"Escape from the city?!"
Hao Meng seemed to be frightened. There were so many soldiers and horses surrounding the city. How could the two of them fight their way out of the city?
"Yes, there are five hundred soldiers and horses in your camp. Take them with you. When Chen Gong comes out to surrender to Liu Bei, we will take the opportunity to rush out of the city while their defenses are lax."
All the soldiers and horses under Zhang Liao's command have been buried in Xiapi. Now the soldiers and horses in the city are mainly soldiers under Chen Gong and Hao Meng.
In fact, Zhang Liao wanted to rush out of the city and join Cao Cao because he heard the cries of the enemy soldiers besieging the city from the north and west.
Those Taishan soldiers came to the city almost every day and shouted that they wanted to behead Zhang Liao and avenge Captain Sun.
Only then did Zhang Liao realize that the general he killed in Xiapi turned out to be the leader of these Taishan soldiers.
He also knew that Sun Guan and Zang Ba Yi were brothers and were the number two figures in Langya Taishan.
If he surrenders to Liu Bei, he will definitely not be tolerated by these Taishan people, and Liu Bei will definitely favor the Taishan people, and maybe he will be killed to sacrifice Sun Guan.
Therefore, he would think of escaping from the city and joining Cao Cao.
The reason why he chose Cao Cao was that he knew that Cao Cao was a strong man and a man who cherished his talents. He had a better future following him.
Looking at the heroes in the world today, although the two Yuan Dynasties are the most powerful, they do not have great talents and ambitions.
Currently, there are only two people with great talents and ambitions: Cao Cao and Liu Bei. Since Liu Bei cannot choose, he can only choose Cao Cao.
But with so many soldiers and horses surrounding the city, it was not easy to escape from the city. He had no soldiers and horses in his hands now, so he thought of dragging Hao Meng along with him, hoping to use Hao Meng's power to help him escape from the city.
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Hao Meng thought for a long time. Instead of being an untrusted and ridiculed general under Liu Bei, it would be better to try his best and become an innocent general under Cao Cao.
"Okay, I'll gather the troops right away."
Hao Meng and Zhang Liao rushed back to the camp and ordered the military lord Cao Xing to immediately recall all the soldiers who were defending the city.
Cao Xing didn't know the reason and asked anxiously: "Why are the soldiers recalled? Doesn't that mean there is no one to defend the city?"
Hao Meng scolded: "No need to ask any more questions, just follow the order and go quickly."
Cao Xing had no choice but to obey the order and recall all the soldiers who were guarding the city to the camp.
At this time, word had spread in the city that Lu Bu was dead, and before his death, Gao Shun was asked to leave the city and surrender to Liu Bei.
Chen Gong also summoned his soldiers and prepared to leave the city to ask Liu Bei to surrender.
Cao Xing thought that Hao Meng had gathered his soldiers to follow Chen Gong out of the city to ask for surrender.
If this is the case, he can still accept it, because this is Lu Bu's last wish.
But when he heard that Hao Meng said that he was preparing to break out of the city and join Cao Cao, he immediately objected: "This can't be done! General Lu's body is not cold yet, how can we abandon him and leave. Moreover, there are many soldiers outside the city, how can we break out?"
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Hao Meng said sternly: "Even if you die, it is better than being a ridiculed general. If you are afraid of death and dare not leave the city, just become your general."
Seeing that Hao Meng had decided to leave, Cao Xing stopped talking and left the camp to find Gao Shun, hoping to guard Lu Bu's body with him.
Gao Shun already knew that Chen Gong was going to surrender in advance, so it was good that he didn't have to leave the city to surrender on his own initiative.
At the same time, he was afraid that after Liu Bei's troops entered the city, they would come and destroy Lu Bu's body, so he took dozens of guards to guard Lu Bu's body and his wife and daughter.
Gao Shun was surprised to see Cao Xing coming here alone with a sword. When he heard that Hao Meng and Zhang Liao wanted to leave the city and surrender to Cao Cao, Gao Shun seemed indifferent and said nothing.
It has nothing to do with him whether Zhang Liao and Hao Meng surrender to anyone. He just wants to protect Lu Bu's body and his wife and daughter.
Liu Bei and Zhou Ping were sitting and talking in the Chinese army's tent. Suddenly, soldiers came to report that all the defenders on the city had disappeared and they didn't know what happened in the city.
The two felt strange that Zhou Ping could not guess what was happening in the city at this time, so he had to follow Liu Bei and lead his troops out of the camp and to the city.
When I looked up the city, I saw that there was not a single guard on the wall, but there seemed to be some chaos and noise inside the city.
"Sir, why is this happening in the city? Does Lu Bu also want to use the empty city strategy?"
Liu Bei thought of the empty city strategy Li Jia had used in Huailing.
Zhou Ping shook his head and said: "No, we already know the actual situation in the city, so the empty city plan is useless at this time. Maybe there are changes in the city."
"Sir, what do you think will happen?" Liu Bei asked again.
"Maybe Lu Bu died, or maybe his generals rebelled." Zhou Ping couldn't guess.
Liu Bei thought for a while and said with a smile: "Sir, in my opinion, it is very likely that Lu Bu is dead. They are preparing to leave the city to surrender and withdraw the soldiers and horses defending the city. They want to show us that they have no intention of resisting.
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Zhou Ping hesitated for a moment and said: "It is indeed possible, but it is also possible that Lu Bu is not dead and they gathered their troops to break out of the city."
"Well, it's your thoughtful consideration... Go quickly and send an order to the entire army to be on guard against enemy troops in the city breaking out of the city." Liu Bei turned around and ordered.
"promise."
The messenger behind him rushed to the city in response to the promise, and ordered the surrounding troops on three sides to be on guard against the enemy troops in the city breaking out of the city. He also ordered three thousand troops and horses to defend the south along the Surabaya River.
Because the southern wall of Lucheng was less than two miles away from Surabaya, it was not possible to camp, so soldiers and horses could only be patrolled and defended.
But if the enemy soldiers really leave the city from the south, they will have no choice but to die.
Now there is no boat to cross the Surabaya River. If they leave the city, they will either be killed or fall into the Surabaya River and drown.
"Brother, there are only more than a thousand people in the city. We have so many soldiers and horses surrounding the city. They will not dare to leave the city to break out. I think they must be preparing to leave the city and ask for surrender." Guan Yu said, stroking his beard.
Zhang Fei quickly answered: "My second brother and I have the same opinion."
At this moment, the city gate suddenly opened, and they saw a person coming out of the city first, followed by hundreds of soldiers without any weapons.
